Legging



Patented May l, 1928.

JOSEPH FLEISCHMAN, 0F KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK.

LEGGING.

Application :nl'ed November 16, 1927. Serial'No. 233,569.

My present invention is concerned more especially with leggings intended to be discarded after a single use'infa shower or storm.

It .is an object of the invention to provide a legging of extremely simple and inexpensive construction, which can be readily made of paper or other inexpensive fabrics, which may be applied to the person with facility, and which will not only t snugly and afford adequate protection, but will be attractive in appearance.

Another object is to provide a legging of the above type, one size of which will fit persons of a considerable range of girth.

In the accompanying drawings, in which are shown one or more of various possible embodiments of the several features of this invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating the legging as applied,

Fig. 2 is a plan view illustrating the 'completed legging in open position,

Fig. 3 is a view in transverse cross-section of the closed legging and Fig. 4 is a plan view illustrating the constituent blanks making up the legging, and the relative positions thereof prior to assembly.

Referring now to the drawings, the legging is preferably made of blanks of limber, waterproof or water shedding material, such as paraffin or oil paper on which may be in'iprinted designs or patterns simulating the appearance of the goods of which ordinary l leggings are made.

Preferably the legging is composed of three blanks, a main or central blank 10 and two lateral or side blanks 11 and 12. The main blank has curvature along its sides approximating that of the human calf, and is widened near the bottom to form a toe or instep portion 13 and a heel or ankle portion 14. The lateral blanks 11 and 12 have respectively approximately straight outer edges 15 and lpbut at their inner edges have respectively curvatures 18 and 19 substantially precisely the same as those ofthe main blank 10. The'respective blanks are attached together with the concavities of their curvatures facing each other, as suggested in Fig. 4. While any of a variety of modes of kattachment may be employed within the scope of my invention, I prefer to stitch these blanks together as at 2() Fig. 3. rlhe resultant legging will thus be shaped to provide extra material at the foot for snugly engaging the instep and the heel, as is apparent from the drawings.

A lace or tape 21 is attached near the lower edge of the main blank 10 preferably substantially at the middle thereof. For attachment I may use the usual rivet and wafer 22 known las a Taylor fastener, and commonly employed for stationery. Near the lateral edge 15 I provide additional fasteners preferably equidistant wafer or Taylor fasteners 23. These fasteners include a waferg23 near the lower edge of the lateral panel 11 and a succession of wafers 23 preferably at equal intervals along said edge including a wafer 232 near the upper edge of the legging. The opposite lateral panel 12 is provided with similar wafers24 which are at levels intermediate those of the wafers 23.

The legging'is applied to the person by passing they forward shaped portion 13 of the toe over the instep of the foot, then folding the lateral panels 11 and 12 about the calf to completely encircle the same," with the panel 11 overlapping the edge `of the panel 12. The lace 21 is then simply drawn from the inner side of the shoe under the arch of the foot, anchored about wafer 23 and then laced back and forth in a zig zag path as shown in Fig. 1 alternately about a wafer 24 of blank 12 and a wafer 23 of blank 11, and finally lapped once or twice around the extreme or uppermost fastener 232.

Preferably the line of fasteners 24 are not as near edge 16 as are wafers 23 to edge 15. Accordingly edge 15 will come close to the line of fasteners 24 without covering them, when the legging is applied to a small calf as show/nin Fig. 1, while, when the protector is applied to a large calf, a wider area of panel 12 will be exposed beyond the edge of panel. 11.

l/Vhen the legging is thus applied to the foot, the single lace performs the double function of anchoring the legging in its entirety under the arch of the foot, so that it cannot slip or creep upward, and snugly clasping the legging about the calf. Ihe seams 20 extend substantially. along the median plane of the foot and leg and constitute a brace or stilfener maintaining the form .of the legging.

The inner part of the lace adjacent the wafer 22 serves as an effective arch strap since by its attachment at wafer 23,. it is drawn taut substantially into engagement with the sole of the foot of the shoe and the opposite lower edges of the legging into snug engagement with the shoe. The slack or slippage is thereby avoided which would be incurred where. the ends of the arch strap attached at substantially higher level. Moreover, the continuation of the arch strap as a lace for holding the legging about thev calf aids in distributing the strains exerted by the arch strap over various parts of the fabric, and the fabric will, therefore, endure the strain without the need for local reinforcement.

lVhile the legging is primarily intended for but a single use, it will be understood that it can be readily removed from the foot without destroying any part thereof, and is thus capable of re-use.

It will thus be seen that there is herein described an article in which the several features of this invention are embodied, and which attains the various objects of the invention and is well suited to meet the requirements of practical use.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A legging comprising va blank having fastener elements near the lateral edges thereof and a flexible binder anchored near midway between the lateral edges, whereby the legging encircled about the calf may be secured in position by passing the flexible binder under the arch of theshoe and lacing it with respect to the fasteners.

2. A calf protector comprising a composite blank of paper having substantially straight lateral edges and including extra material near the bottom thereof to accommodate the curvature of the instep and heel of the foot, wafer fasteners near opposite lateral edges of the blank in a zig zag arrangement, and a lace attached near the lower end of the blank substantially midway between the fasteners, whereby in application, the lace may be extended under the arch of the shoe and strung about the successive wafers.

3. A legging comprising a blank having a fastener element near one of the lateral edges of said blank and substantially at the lower" end thereof, a second fastener .element near the lower end of said blank substantially midway between the lateral edges thereof, flexible binder means including a portion that may be extended under the arch of the foot and secured to said fastener elements near the lower edge of the blank, and fastener-elements near the lateral edges of the blank and distributed substantially along` the length thereof, said flexible binder means including a portion that may be laced with respect to said fasteners to maintain the legging in position about the calf.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York andState of New York this 15th day of Novemeber, A. D. 1927.

JOSEPH FLEISCHA'IAN.

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